Conspicuous Consumption: Sin or Just a Bit of Fin?

I've never been particularly religious so I've come to this realisation/conception in kind of a roundabout way. My favorite food for a long time has been Pad Thai, as you know, an literally mouth watering conglomeration of noodles, shrimp spring onions, peanuts and those little bean shoots that are very pale and seem more like an afterthought, but balance well with the crunchiness of the peanuts on top. I have also found, that the best Pad Thai I am able to find anywhere has been at Rod Dee, quite likely the tastiest and best value restaurant in Boston. In anycase, I was browsing Google image search this morning, in search of something shocking to post, and under the search word "disgusting," I came across a picture of a Shrimp, and not less than several websites about the sin of consuming crustaceans and other sea dwelling creatures with exoskeletons. Let's get the terminology right: the citation that incriminates eating shrimp as a worldly sin is Leviticus 11:9-12, and while this remains the first time I've ever had to cite Leviticus or any part of the Bible IN MY LIFE, I do so because I believe the issues the passage raises for not eating shrimp (or anything that hath not scales of fins...) are interesting. The issue does highlight the fact that a shrimp is more likely to talk to a COCKROACH [one of it's closer cousins] at a party than a seared tuna steak - and when I remember dissecting grasshoppers in eighth grade bio, I remember learnining that it's closest relative was a lobster (also clearly a sin). I've never liked Maine or Maine culture, so I'm glad to hear it's well on its way to digging it's own grave, should this all have any resonance in a world beyond. But where does this leave me? I would not stop eating Pad Thai on religious grounds because I've never functioned like that - but the distinction made higlighting the shrimp as a disgusting scuttly insect kind makes me think. Don't you remember in the rhetoric of late 80s to mid 90s television, how having shrimp at a party was indicative of status? Murphy Brown is what immediately springs to mind.